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Book Synopsisaeo Pierre Bourdieu is one of the worlda s leading social theorists. aeo His other books have all been enthusiastically received and sold well. aeo This is an excellent introduction to Pierre Bourdieua s work and also includes an up--to--date bibliography.
Trade Review'A rare opportunity to experience a great mind in action outside the usual conventions of academic self-presentation.'
Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University 'The leading French sociologist of our generation, already well known through his researches and theoretical formulations, he appears here in the first person, in dialogue and in seminar, and in the magnifying glass of Loic Wacquant. One hopes the appeal of this self-presentation does not eclipse Bourdieu's other major works, for An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology promises to be Bourdieu's most widely-read book.'
Randall Collins, University of California, Riverside
“This is essential reading for anyone considering Bourdieuian-based educational research.”
Educational Review
Table of ContentsPreface.
Part I: Towards a Social Praxeology: The Structure and Logic of Bourdieu's Sociology.
1. Beyond the Antinomy of Social Physics and Social Phenomenology.
2. Classification Struggles and the Dialectic of Social and Mental Structures.
3. Methodological Relationalism.
4. The Fuzzy Logic of Practical Sense.
5. Against Theoreticism and Methodologism: Total Social Science.
6. Epistemic Reflexivity.
7. Reason, Ethics and Politics.
Part II: The Purpose of Reflexive Sociology (The Chicago Workshop).
1. Sociology as Socioanalysis.
2. The Unique and the Invariant.
3. The Logic of Fields.
4. Interest, Habitus, Rationality.
5. Language, Gender, and Symbolic Violence.
6. For a Realpolitik of Reason.
7. The Personal is Social.
Part III: The Practice of Reflexive Sociology (The Paris Workshop).
1. Handing Down a Trade.
2. Thinking Relationally.
3. A Radical Doubt.
4. 'Double Bind' and Conversion.
5. Participant Objectivation.
Appendices.
References and Bibliography.
Name Index.
Subject Index
